Agriturismo Podere Poseidonia

Podere Poseidonia is a working farm of twelve hectares: olives, figs, wheat and a vegetable garden that feeds the kitchen. The old Greeks called Paestum “Poseidonia”, and the ground still yields coins and potsherds whenever somebody digs a new row. The farm has been in the Marino family for three generations and became an agriturismo in 2011 when Carla and Giuseppe, who are now in charge, moved back from Milan to run it.

The eight guest rooms are in the farm’s former stables, granary and hayloft, built from local stone and refurbished with whitewash, exposed beams and Vietri tiles. They are simple and cool, with proper beds, good lamps and no television in the hayloft suite. The stone cottage called Casetta Cilento has two bedrooms, a kitchen and its own terrace, for families or friends who want to cook for themselves.

Breakfast is long and homemade: bread, ricotta, honey, jam, fig cake, eggs and the farm’s own olive oil. In the evening Carla serves a four-course farm dinner on the terrace with wine from the cellar. Between meals there is a salt-water pool surrounded by fig trees, bicycles to borrow, hens to feed and a farm track that leads through the olive groves to the Temples of Paestum in about fifteen minutes on foot.

We are a family business and we like guests who enjoy slow mornings. The cockerel has no concept of weekends. We will happily recommend a guide for the archaeological park, a mozzarella dairy with a tasting and a beach with space to spread out, and we will lend you a basket for the market.